Home Fire Preparedness Campaign "Goal 1000" Report

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Posted December 18, 2015, Bob Thornton, Sacramento, CA

Initial Report as of 12.15.2015

Home Fire Preparedness Campaign

Summary of December 4 & 5, 2015 events

National goal: to reduce the number of fire deaths and injuries in the United States by 25% within the next five years.

Campaign purpose: Seven times a day, someone dies in a home fire in the United States. Every 40 minutes, an injury from a fire is reported. Nearly 1,0000 times every day, fire departments across the nation are called to home fires and damages from US home fires is bigger than the entire annual sales of many Fortune 500 companies. By mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors, the American Red Cross and our community partnership coalition will:

Combine new technology and innovation with old-fashioned neighbor-to neighbor outreach.

Save lives, reduce injuries, and cut down on needless losses.

This is a summary of key items from the written records recorded by the installation teams which were fielded for the December 4th & 5th event. It does not include the data recorded by teams using the Red Cross electronic web submittal form system which are sent directly to national ARC. It should represent greater than 80% of all recorded records for the December 5, 2015 event.

Total number of households canvassed and notified of event: >1.750 households